4 news

10 commentaries
14 features

20 culture

26 literary

32 miscellaneous

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National Science Complex:

Deciphering The Student Code
Leading the Progress by Ada Giselle R. Suarez
by Andrea Ocampo

UP turns 102, IC; IB and IM turn 100

by Joey Cauyo

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Catch the Dragon’s Tail Football

1 s t : NIGS 1 s t : NIMBB
2nd: NIP 2nd: IM
3rd: NIB 3rd: NIGS
Tug-of-War Table Tennis
1 s t : NIB 1 s t : NIB
2nd: NIGS 2nd: NIMBB
3rd: IC 3rd: IC
Eating Contest Badminton
1 s t : NIMBB 1 s t : NIGS
2nd: NIB 2nd: NIP
3rd: NIGS 3rd: IM
Basketball Scavenger’s Hunt
1 s t : IM 1 s t : NIB
2nd: NIGS 2nd: NIMBB
3rd: NIMBB 3rd: IC
Women’s Basketball Chess
1 s t : IC 1 s t : NIMBB & NIP
2nd: NIP 2nd: IC
3rd: NIGS 3rd: IM
Volleyball Virtual–Dance Dance Revolution
1 s t : NIP 1 s t : NIP
2nd: IC 2nd: NIMBB
3rd: NIB 3rd: NIGS
Dodgeball Virtual–Wii Sports
1 s t : IC 1 s t : NIP
2nd: NIMBB 2nd: NIB
3rd: NIGS 3rd: NIGS
Frisbee Mascot Contest
1 s t : NIP 1 s t : NIMBB
2nd: NIGS 2nd: NIP
3rd: NIB 3rd: IB
Cheerdance OVERALL
1 s t : NIMBB
1 s t : NIMBB
2nd: NIGS
3rd: NIP 2nd: NIGS
3 r d : NIP

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COMMENTARIES COMMENTARIES

After Hours

Eirish Sison
managing editor

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CULTURES CULTURES

melting pot
by patrick cruz

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We bring to you this issue a special edition of From the Horse’s Mouth. Here are some of the things that a few of our readers from MBB have...
Overheard
“Kaya yung mouse embryo,
iseseries mo yan, 5, 10, 15,
20, 25 percent sucrose, para
pag section mo, maganda,
may syrup!”
“O, sino magpapa-xerox nito
for 30 people? Kasi kung dito
kayo magpapaxerox, 1 peso
per page, pero sa Shopping
Center, magkano ba? 50
cents lang..
Pero kailangan yung ipa-
photocopy ninyo, beautiful
ha, hindi yung parang ba-
sura!”
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at Albert Hall
“We actually have that in
the Bioimaging Center. Di
na namin pinakita sa inyo.
It’s just a box. Pero 4 million
pesos na box.” (Referring to
the Whole Animal Imaging
System)
Person 1: But these Zeiss
“Ang dami-dami talagang kailangang gawin microscopes are not built
sa molecular biology! You have to clone, to ex- for Asian bodies, you know?
press, do cell culture, mate the mice, feed the They are for big, German
mice, clean the cages, tapos immunostaining bodies – you know, these
big, six foot five inch-big
pa, your gels, etcetera. DI BA ANG DAMING German guys.
KAILANGANG GAWIN? < German guy at the back of
Okay lang.” the room laughs. >
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Three Men and

a Hotel
Three men decided The Triangle
.
to split the cost of ividual parts are moved around
manager gave them
a price of $30. The
a hotel room. The ho
tel From the first triangle, the ind
each paying $10, and men split the bill ev
retired to their room enly,
.
However, the mana
ger realized that it
which meant the ho was a Wednesday nig
tel had a special: room ht,
overcharged them $5 s were only $25. He
! had
He promptly called the
bellboy, gave him fiv
told him to return it e one-dollar bills and
to the men. When the
situation to the me bellboy explained the
n, they were so ple
establishment that ased at the honesty
they promptly tippe of the
he had returned and d the bellboy $2 of
each kept $1 for him the $5
self.
The Problem: Each
of the three men en
original $10, minus ded up paying $9 (th
$1 back) totalling $27 eir
makes $29. Where did , plus $2 for the be
the extra dollar go? llboy

same, cover-
If the parts used are just the
and heig ht, where did
ing the same length
the space com e from ?

The Matchsticks

tch sticks
g exactly three different ma
How do you rearrange usin
s?
so that you form three square

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